Preserving and Celebrating
Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania

On Line Data Bases

Central Pennsylvania
Conference Methodist Pastors. Click on the first letter of the
surname to enter the file of all the pastors for that letter. The
instructions file gives information about this project, the dates at which
various conference boundary changes occurred, and detailed bibliographic references.

Note:James R. Cadden is the son of Robert Cadden.The second Mrs. Cadden
was the widow of a Mr. Elhanan Stouffer.

CADDEN, ROBERT

Born: 10-28-1782 Irelandmarried:
Margaret _____

Died: 6-26-1859 BaltimoreCountyMDobit: [?/?/1798 – 8/5/1883]

admitted on trial, Baltimore
Conference

Interment: Loudon Park Cemetery,
BaltimoreMD

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1860, 36

1815-16Huntingdon
circuit

1816-17Allegheny

1817-18Monroe

1818-19Staunton

1819-20Juniata

1820-22Aughwick

1822-24Lycoming

1824-26Northumberland

1826-28Stafford

1828-30Jefferson

1830-32Berkeley

1832-33Baltimore
circuit

1833-34Frederick

1834-35Liberty

1835-39superintendent,
Chambersburg District

1840-42Loudon

1842-44Hillsboro

1844-46Front
Royal

1846-48WestRiver

1848-49Baltimore
Sharp Street & Asbury

1849-51Great
Falls

1851-52East
Harford

1852retired

1857charter
member of East Baltimore Conference

Note: Robert Cadden is the father
of James R. Cadden and Elizabeth
S. CaddenIsrael,
wife of Rev. Fielder Israel (1825-1884) – originally of the Baltimore
Conference, but later a Unitarian minister.A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s
History of the Old Baltimore Conference, page 344.

Note: One source states that
Wilbert W. Cadle was born in England
in 1858.He supposedly had 5 different
spouses.His first wife never
remarried.Kathryn Louise Lombard is believed to be his second wife.It is reported he had no more children by his
subsequent wives.

Note: As of 2006, Robert Carlyon has
been serving St. James Episcopal Church Orwigsburg PA for at least 8
years.As of 2017 he was retired and
living in Sedona AZ.

CARNELL, SAMUEL SLACK

Born: 4-15-1869 Nottinghamshire,
Englandmarried: Mina Viola Bressler

Died: 3-12-1932Berwick PAobit: [2/?/1878 – 10/17/1942]

1896admitted
on trial

1898ordained deacon

Interment: NorthBendCemetery,
North BendPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1932, 175

1895-97Westport

1897-00JerseyShore Epworth

1900-01Jonestown

1901-05Marysville

1905-11York Ridge Avenue

1911-14Shippensburg

1914-16Bellwood

1916-19MountUnion

1919-25Altoona Fifth Avenue

1925-27Harrisburg
Stevens Memorial

1927-30Emporium

1930-31Flemington

1931-32Berwick
Calvary

Note: An obituary for Samuel S.
Carnell is also given in the 3/24/1932 Christian Advocate,
page 328.

CARPENTER, CHARLES IRVING

Born: 1-13-1906 WilmingtonDEmarried: Miriam Dryden

Died: 2-22-1994obit:
d. 1985

married 2: Dorothy Boyle

1929admitted on trial, Newark Conferenceobit2:

1929ordained deacon, Newark Conference

1931ordained elder, Wilmington Conference

Interment: Barratt’s Chapel, FredericaDE

Obit: Peninsula-Delaware
Conference 1994, 366

1925-27student, BucknellUniversity

1925-26Johnson Citya

1926-27Montandon
& Henderson (ending summer 1927)

1927-31student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1931-34Rehoboth

1934-36Federalsburg MD

1936-60chaplain, USAF

1948-58chief of Air Force chaplains

1958-60(first) chaplain, ASAFAcademy

1960-68Milford
Avenue

1968retired

Note: Charles I. Carpenter is
reported to be the first chaplain elected a delegate to General Conference
(1956).

aThe statistical report in 1926 indicates that Johnson
City is a new appointment in the Sunbury District. Johnson
City is apparently another name for Ranshaw
(east of Shamokin), which is also sometimes called Brady.

CARPENTER, CHARLES JOSEPH.

Born: 5-28-1920Corning NYmarried: Margaret Marie Davis

Died: 10-20-1967Newport News VAobit: [11/16/1929 – 4/23/2000]

1941license, Genesee Conference

1943admitted on trial, Genesee Conference

Interment: Haynes Cemetery,
Mathews VA

Obit:

1941-42Dexter-Middle Ridge

1942-43DaltonNY

1943-45student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1943-44Bellport,
Long Island NY

1945-46JasperWoodhullNY

1946-47Hemlock-LimaNY

1947-50Elkland-Osceola

1950-52student, Westminster Theological Seminary in WestminsterMD

1950-52Salona-Lamar(ending
1-1-1952)

Note: Charles Carpenter took work
in the Virginia Conference.See 1952,
89.The widowed Mrs. Carpenter later
married a Mr. William Reed Atkins.

CARROLL, DAVID HENRY

Born: 7-11-1840Baltimore County MDmarried: Mary E. Boyd

Died: 11-15-1912obit:
[?/?/1936 -2/26/1903]

1861admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1863ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1865ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: Green Mount Cemetery,
Baltimore MD

Obit: Baltimore
Conference 1913, 71

1861-63Westminster

1863-65FrederickCity

1865-66Mt.Vernon

1866-68Carlisle

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70Williamsport
Price Chapel

1870transfer to Baltimore Conference

1870-71on leave

1871-72Baltimore
Huntingdon Avenue

1872-88agent, book depository

1888-95president, Baltimore City Missionary and Church Extension
Society

1895located

president, Consolidated Cotton Duck Company

Note: David H. Carroll was also
the founding president of the National City Bank of Baltimore in 1910.Rev. and Mrs. Carroll had no children, and
Mrs. Carroll was extremely active in Methodist women’s, missionary and
benevolent organizations.

CARROLL, FLOYD A.

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1938admitted
on trial, Maryland Conference of Methodist Protestant Church

Interment:

Obit:

1936-39Warwick

1939-40Doylesburg

1940transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of
Methodist Church

1940-42Dillsburg-Wellsville

1942-45Duncannon

1945-50Gettysburg

1950withdrew

CARSON, JESSE FLEMING

Born: 7-8-1889 LycomingCountyPAmarried:
(single)

Died: 10-11-1963obit:

1923quarterly
conference license, Waterville

Interment: WatervilleCemetery,
WatervillePA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1964, 356

1941-43Phelps Chapel

1954-63associate, Waterville

Note: Jesse F. Carson served as a
local pastor.His main vocation was that
of teacher and principal in the JerseyShore public
schools.He also served the South Avis
Community Chapel and preached for many summers at the Carsontown
ME Church.

Note: In 1950 John G. Cattron
is listed as a student at DePauw University from Williamsport PA – which
appears to be his “home” town, as his father died in Williamsport in 1952.

CHAMBERS, JAMES WILLIAM

Born: 1946married:
Sara Jane Milliron

Died: 9-6-1916obit:
[?/?/1844 – 12/12/1932]

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [1917,66]

1896-99Center (near Osceola Mills) (did not finish the last year)

1907-11Alum Bank

1911-13Burnt Cabins

1913-14Pine Grove Mills

1914-15Allegheny circuit

Note: James W. Chambers served as
a local pastor.

CHAMBERS, LEWIS

Born: 6-?-1820married:
Eliza Ann Ironside

Died: 1907obit:
[7/?/1820 - ?/?/1901]

1847quarterly
conference license

Interment: Big Cove Tannery Lutheran Cemetery, Fulton County
PA

Obit:

1874-75Cove (FultonCounty)

1879-82Cove

1882-83Licking
Creek

1883-84FortLittleton

1884-86Licking
Creek

1886-88FortLittleton

1892-93Harrisonville

Note:Lewis Chambers
lived in Big Cove Tannery and served as a local pastor.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT DANIEL

Born: 1-4-1823 Martinsburg
VA (WV)married:

Died: 9-8-1864Carlisle PAobit:

admitted on trial

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1865, 40

1845-46South Branch

1846-47Front Royal

1847-48Stafford

1848-49Baltimore
Caroline Street station

1848-51Liberty

1851-53Woodstock

1853-54Rockingham

1854-56Annapolis
station

1856-57North Baltimore

1857charter member of East
Baltimore Conference

1857-59Carlisle

1859-64faculty, IrvingFemaleCollege
in Mechanicsburg

1864-65president, EmoryFemaleCollege
in Carlisle

CHANDLER, ABRAM S.

Born: 8-22-1813 LuzerneCountyPAmarried:
Almeda Lewis

Died: 1-6-1887Flemington PAobit: [d. 9/18/1871]

married2:
Mrs. Mary Ann Allen

1844license,
exhorter obit2:
[7/18/1818 - 3/25/1902]

1852license, local
preacher

1856ordained deacon

1869quarterly
conference license, Leidy

Interment: WildwoodCemetery, WilliamsportPA

Obit: Christian Advocate 4/7/1887

1858-59Newton,
Wyoming Conference (2nd half of year)

1868-69Leidy

1869-70Westport
& Farrandsville

Note: Abram S. Chandler
served as a local pastor.He is the
father of Ira Lewis Chandler (1839-1920) of the Central Tennessee Conference,
and of Levi Wesley Chandler (1849-1927) of the Nebraska and Oregon
Conferences.He reportedly also served
Old Caledonia, Pine Creek, Lewisburg mission and Loyalsock.
The first Mrs. Chandler is the daughter of Rev. Oliver Lewis(c1797-c1873: a local preacher in the
Wyoming Conference) and a first cousin of Joshua S. Lewis (1829-1908) of the
Wyoming Conference. Abram and Almeda are the
great-great-grandparents (through their daughter Nellie Chandler von Dreele) of Lutheran bishop Claire SchenotBurkat and Episcopal priest James von Dreele.

CHANDLER,
IRA LEWIS

Born: 6-14-1839married:
Margret Emma _____

Died:obit:
Central Tennessee Conference 1914, 6

1865admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Caledonia
circuit

Interment:

Obit: Central
Tennessee Conference 1921, 21

1865-66Hancock
(first part of year) & Westport
(second part of year)

1866-67Sinnemahoning
and Westport

1867-68Sinnemahoning

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69Sinnemahoning

1869-70Carlisle
mission

1870-72on
leave

1871-72Leidy

1872-73Port
Matilda

1873-74Schellsburg

1874transfer to Tennessee
Conference

Note: Ira L. Chandler is the son
of Abram S. Chandler, and the brother of Levi W. Chandler (d. 11/12/1927) of
the Nebraska
and Oregon Conferences.

CHANDLER,
J.R.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1872-73Pine
Creek

Note: J.R. Chandler served as a local pastor.

CHARLTON, WILLIAM CHAPMAN

Born: 2-10-1869 Gateshead, Englandmarried:

Died: 1-9-1940obit:

1896admitted
on trial

Interment: FlushingCemetery, FlushingNY

Obit:

1896-98Alexandria

1898-99Wolfsburg

1899-00Blain

1900-02McVeytown

1902-05Mahaffey

1905-08Munson

1908-10 Benton

1910withdrew “to connect with another denomination”1910, 73

1910Episcopal Deacon

1911Episcopal Priest

Note: William C. Charlton is
listed in the Episcopal Church as a deacon in 1910 and a priest in 1911.See Drew Alumni book(class of 1896), p. 255.Contact person (2002) is

Note: Juan C. Chavez is the son of
early New Mexico Methodist preacher Teodosio F.
Chavez.He transferred to Central
PA when the Spanish Mission Conference was dissolved in 1929 [see
the 6/20/1929 Christian Advocate, page 788].Juan C. Chavez is also credited with serving as a
Methodist pastor in Socorro NM, Hillsboro NM and Las Cruces NM (among other
places) – and as being an early circuit rider on horseback to outlying
Methodist groups in NM.He retired to El PasoTX, and his connection to Central
Pa is not known.He
“disappears” from the journal and is not is not listed after 1964.

Note: An obituary for George D.
Chenoweth also appears in the July 1880 Conference News.A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s
The Old Baltimore Conference.He is a
brother to Alfred Griffith Chenoweth (1809-1864) of the Northwest Indiana
Conference.

1867admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Carlisle Emory

Interment: AshlandCemetery, Carlisle
PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1883, 77

1862-68principal, preparatory department at DickinsonCollege

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71Gettysburg

1871-74Newport

1874-77Shippensbug

1877-80Greencastle

1880-82Espy-Light St.

Note: An obituary for Henry C.
Cheston also appears in the 12/15/1882 Conference News.Mrs. Cheston is the Jane Culver mentioned in
the 2006 volume of The Chronicle,
page 68.

CHILCOTE, ELIAL McVEY

Born: 5-27-1838Shirleysburg
PAmarried:
Ruth Ann Ale

Died: 1-29-1911Ridgwayobit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1933, 202

1864admitted on trial, East Baltimore
Conference: recommended by Schellsburg

Interment: RosemontCemetery, Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1911, 129

1863-64Schellsburg

1864-65McConnellsburg

1865-66Orangeville

1866-67 Chilisquaque

1867-68Bloomingdale

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-71Hughesville

1871-73LibertyValley

1873-75CoganValley

1875-78Penfield

1878-80Sinnemahoning

1880-82Hyner-Westport

1882-85Orangeville

1885-86Beach
Haven

1886-88Trevorton

1888-91Snydertown

1891-92Nescopeck

1892-93Freeland

1893-97Rohrsburg

1897-99Selinsgrove

1899-01Penn’s
Valley

1901-02Rouzerville

1902-05Shrewsbury

1905-06Catawissa
circuit

1906-08Roaring
Creek

1908-09Laurelton

1909retired

Note: An obituary for Elial M. Chilcote also appears in
the 5/18/1911 New York Christian Advocate, page 683.This surname is also rendered CHILCOAT.

CHILCOAT, WILLIAM L.

Born: 12-5-1845married: Sarah A. Shenefelt

Died: 5-5-1917obit:
[5/9/1855 – 2/15/1932]

Interment: Grandview Cemetery, Altoona PA

Obit: [Central Pennsylvania Conference 1918, 67]

1899-02Utahville

1902-03Altoona
circuit

1903-05Asbury (near Altoona)

1905-06Pleasant Gap

1907-09Blandburg

1910-12IrishValley

Note: William L. Chilcoat served as a local pastor.This surname is also rendered CHILCOTE, and
the middle initial is also given as A.

CHOATE, CAUTIOUS A.

Born: 1-30-1898 Illinoismarried:
Ruth Florence Poorman

Died: 8-13-1971 Kansasobit
Kansas West Conference 1991, 286

1922admitted on trial,
Southwest Kansas Conference

Interment: Halstead Cemetery, Hal;stead KS

Obit: Kansas
West Conference 1972, 233

1923-24 Belmont

1931-32Eagles Mere & Laporte, Central
Pennsylvania Conference

Note: Dr. Cautious A. Choate served
in the Central Pennsylvania Conference while a member of another
conference.

CHURCH, FRANCIS E.

Born: 1842Philadelphia PAmarried: Annie Randolph

Died: 10-16-1891Mt. Airy PAobit: [9-7-1841 – 19/17/1903]

1863admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Williamsport Second

Interment: Ivy Hill Cemetery,
Philadelphia PA

Obit:

1863-64Berwick

1864-65Milton

1865-66West Baltimore circuit

1866-67East Harford

1867-68East Baltimore

1868transfer to Philadelphia Conference

1868-69Milestown

1869-70Doylestown

1870-72Paschalville

1872-73Lochiel and Allison’s Hill

1873-75Bristol

1875-76Philadelphia
Sanctuary

1876-78Philadelphiatwenty-Ninth Street

1878-80on leave

1880located at own request

may have moved to Michigan

Note: In 1873 Lochiel
and Allison’s Hill (and other Harrisburg
appointments) were transferred from the Philadelphia Conference to the Central
PA Conference.The 1873 journals list
Francis E. Church as transferring from Philadelphia
to Central PA and from Central PA back to Philadelphia.For all intents and purposes, he was really
never a member of the Central PA Conference.

CLARK, LARRY SPENCER

Born: 4-23-1928Jersey Shore PAmarried: Rae Ludwig

Died: 11-13-1992 DeltonaFLobit:

1961license,
recommended by Salladasburg

1965ordained deacon

1967ordained elder

Interment: SalladasburgCemetery, Salladasburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania Conference 1993, 456

1961-62Ralston

1962-66East Canton

1966-71Wallis Run

1971-75Eagle – Mill Creek

1975-80East Canton

1980-85Montandon – Milton

1985-89Mifflinburg
St. Paul (ending 1/1/89)

1989disability leave (beginning 1/1/89)

CLARK, LEWIS NEWMAN

Born: 6-3-1833married:
Annie A. _____

Died: 3-2-1909obit:
[? – 10/8/1887]

1863admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference.

Interment: Porchtown
Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, Franklinville NJ

Obit: New
Jersey Conference 1909, 151

1863transfer to Troy Conference

1863-68Troy Conference

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70Port
Matilda

1870-72New
Washington

1872-73Pleasantville

1873-75York
Springs

1875-76Castle
Fin

1876-78on
leave

1878retired

1884transfer to New Jersey Conference

CLARK, VANCE NORMAN

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1949admitted
on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1944-46Harrisonville

1946-48Montandon

1948-50Snydertown

1950-52Hastings

1952-56chaplain,
US Air Force

1956withdrew

1956-58unknown

1958-62St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, TiftonGA

2005Trinity Episcopal Church, Tyrone PA (rector emeritus)

CLARKE, FRANCIS A.C.

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1873admitted
on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1873-74Excelsior

1874discontinued at own request

CLARKE, J.H. SLICER

Born: 3-11-1831 BaltimoreCountyMDmarried:

Died: 9-21-1893Rossville MDobit:

?license, recommended by WestFalls

1860admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: Rossville MD

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1894, 95

1860-61Castle
Fin circuit

1861-62McVeytown

1862-63Woodbury

1863-65West
Falls

1864-66Quincy

1866-67Canton

1867-68chaplain,
Bay View Asylum in BaltimoreMD

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69York Duke Street

1869-70Mercersburg

1870-71Gettysburg

1871-72McConnellsburg

1872-73Bendersville

1873-74Granville

1874-75on
leave

1875-76Ray’s
Hill

1876-77New
Bloomfield

1877-78Concord

1878-79Saxton

1879-80Ray’s
Hill

1880on leave

Note: Bay View Asylum was erected
in 1866, became part of the Baltimore City Hospitals in 1925, and is now part
of the Johns Hopkins facilities.One
source suggests J.H. Slicer Clarke never married.Maser’s 1969 history indicates (with question
marks) a wife with initials J.C. who died in 1913, but these appear to be
extraneous jottings referring to James C. Clarke that found their way into the
final manuscript.

Note: Mrs. Cleaver is a sister to
Rev. Curtin Gregg Roop (d. 1943) of the Northern New
York Conference.The 1905 Dickinson
College Alumni Record, page 291, also credits him with serving churches in West
Livingston NJ, New York City NY Fordam, and Brooklyn
NY Flatbush Avenue – as well as being an instructor
in Greek at the Drew Theological Seminary.Perhaps all that was accomplished 1889-92 .

Note: An obituary for William A. Clippinger also appears in the 7/2/1883 Conference News.
Mrs. Clippinger’s sister Jennie Elizabeth is married
to John L. Leilich.The 2005 volume of The Chronicle,
pages 72-75, includes material on the Clippinger
family.

CLOSSON, WILLIAM H.

Born: 1858married:
Elizabeth Agnes _____

Died: 9-15-1944obit:
[?/?/1860 – 5/27/1921]

1893ordained elder, recommended by Hastings
circuit

Interment: OakridgeCemetery, AltoonaPA

Obit:

1890-93Hastings

1893-94Shawmut [Shawville]

1894-95living in Hastings

1895-97Altoona
Asbury

1897-98Warrior’s Mark

1906-07Blackwell

Note: William H. Closson served as
a local pastor.The surname is also
rendered CLOSSEN.

Note:John S. Coffman
appears to have ministerial credentials, but his denominational affiliation is
not known.

COHICK, JAMES LEROY

Born: 4-30-1890 LycomingCountyPAmarried: Iva Gertrude Wagner

Died: 20-24-1952Salladasburgobit:
[10/25/1892 – 12/?/1979]

1923admitted
on trial

Interment: SalladasburgCemetery, Salladasburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1953, 216

1920-25Lock
Haven

1925-26 Martinsburg

1926-30Duboistown-Nisbet

1930-33Orbisonia

1933-34Avis-Phelps
Chapel

1934-37Avis

1937-39Berwick
Calvary

1939-41New
Bloomfield

1941-43on
leave

1943retired

COLAS, HARRY

Born: 1-17-1892Sturgeon PAmarried: Sarah Frances Walburn

Died: 7-15-1969obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1933, 202

1926admitted
on trial

1929ordained deacon

Interment:

Obit:

1921-24Oriole & Antes Fort

1924-25Laurelton

1925-30Town
Hill

1930-34Elysburg (ending 10/15/1934)

1935withdrew to enter Baptist ministry (see 1935, 93)

Baptist
pastor in Turner KS [Kansas City
area]

Note: Harry Colas served as a
supply pastor for several years before seeking formal admission to
Conference.Mrs. Colas is a graduate of
the LucyWebbHayesSchool
and worked as a deaconess before their marriage in 1920.

Note: Nathaniel W. Colburn is a
brother of Richard H. Colburn.All the
transfers of Rev. Colburn, except for his 1861 return to East
Baltimore, were due to changes in conferences boundaries.A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s
The Old Baltimore Conference, page 350.

Note: Dan P. Cole is listed in the
1966 Who’s Who in the MethodistChurch, page 254.Mrs. Cole is the daughter of Walter Lynn
Crowding.

COLEGROVE, ALBERT ERNEST

Born: 12-9-1855Corry PAmarried: Margaret M.
McCullough

Died: 1919Perry OHobit: [1856 – 1929]

1883admitted
on trial, recommended by Ralston

Interment: PerryCenterCemetery,
LakeCountyOH

Obit:

1876-80student, Allegheny College in Meadville PA

1880-82faculty, Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1882-83? [Ralston?]

1883-84Mercersburg

1884transfer to Erie Conference

1884-86faculty, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima NY

1886-87faculty, Allegheny Colle in Meadeville
PA

1887discontinued at own request

1890-93faculty, Baker University in Baldwin KS

1893retired due to ill health to Corry PA

principal, high school in Bradford PA

principal, Glenwood high school in Cleveland OH

Note: Albert E. Colegrove is the son of Major [Mager]
Colegrove (1821-1893) of the Erie Conference and the
father of Dana Creighton Colgrove (1883-1913) of the
Episcopal Church.This surname is also
rendered COLGROVE.

COLEMAN, JAMES A.

Born: 1831 BaltimoreMDmarried: Mrs. Louisa E.
(Buffington) Schott

Died: 3-30-1879 PhiladelphiaPAobit:

1851admitted
on trial, Baltimore Conference

Interment: Mt.MoriahCemetery,
PhiladelphiaPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1880, 67

1849-51Castle
Fin

1851-52Shrewsbury

1852-53WestminsterMD

1853-54LibertyMD

1854-55Hampstead
MD

1855-57Allegheny
circuit.

1857charter member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-59Bedford
circuit

1859-61Cassville

1861-62Birmingham
(ending 10/62)

1862-63chaplain,
US Navy (beginning 10/62)

1865-68retired

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

Note: An obituary for James A.
Coleman also appears in the May 1879 Conference News, page 5.

COLEMAN, JUDITH ANN (DeSTEFANO)

Born: 5-21-1942 AltoonaPAmarried: Larry Lee Coleman

Died: 4-11-2005obit:

1964license, recommended by Altoona Fairview

1966admitted
on trial

1966ordained deacon

1969ordained elder

Interment: PaxtangCemetery,
HarrisburgPA

Obit: 2005, 442

1964-67student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1964-65youth pastor,
Rutherford NJ

1965-66youth pastor, BoontoonNJ

1967-69associate, Jessup-Guilford MD

1969-71chaplain, Women’s DetentionCenter at WashingtonDC

1971-75Burnt Cabins

1975-76Tressler Home Services

1976-89chaplain, State Correctional Institution at Muncy PA

1989Harrisburg Women in Crisis, Harrisburg
(ending 12/9/1989)

1989-91chaplain, HarrisburgHospital (beginning
12/9/1989)

1991Dauphin County Pre-Trial Services (ending 8/12/1991)

1991-93chaplain, Leader Nursing Homes (beginning 8/12/1991

1993-97head counselor, Harrisburg Salvation Army Rehab Center

1997-05director Harrisburg Daystar

Note: Larry Coleman is a member of
the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the UnitedMethodistChurch.

COLLINS, GEORGE THOMAS DORSEY

Born: 9-6-1849married:
Emma D. Hutchinson [3/15/1880]

Died: 1-30-1926obit:

license, Baltimore Conference MES

ordained, Baltimore Conference, MES

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore
Conference MES 1926,98

1891-92Waterville

1908 Cumberland
Trinity

Note: G.T.D. Collins apparently
had a long and distinguished career in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.At the time of their marriage,
G.T.D. Collins was 30 years old from YorkPA
– and Emma was 17 years old from ShenandoahCountyVA.

Note: John C. Collins, a
ministerial son of the Newton Hamilton church, is the father of Paul F.
Collins.He is the son of Rev. Presby C. Collins of the Church
of God.The mother of Mrs. Collins is Catherine Flegal Gearhart (1856-?), great-granddaughter of United
Brethren pioneer preacher Valentine Flegal
(1758-1840).

COLLINS, PAUL FREDERICK

Born: 9-30-1898Karthaus PAmarried:
Dorothy Dinterman [1922]

Died: 12-8-1944Orbisonia PAobit: [d.
1925]

married2:
Thelma M. Crone [1927]

obit2:
[4/10/1909 – 8/5/2001]

Interment: Newton Hamilton Memorial Cemetery, Newton
Hamilton PA

Obit

Note: Paul F. Collins is the son pf John C. Collins.He has a file with the Conference Board of
Ordained Ministry, but he never served in the Central Pennsylvania
Conference.He apparently started but
did not complete the conference course of study and worked as a salesman in a store in Mount Union.The second Mrs. Collins later married a Mrt. McMullen.

Note: Ernest C. Colwell is the son
of Rev. John Colwell, a Methodist minister in England.His three brothers were Methodist ministers
in England, and he had two
uncles who were Methodist ministers in Australia.He came to America
in 1894.He is the father of Dr. Ernest
Cadman Colwell, president of the School
of Theology at ClaremontCA.

Note: Harry Compton served as a local pastor.He was a missionary who had served for many
years in South America.See 1926, 255.The conference archives has a biographical
file on Harry Compton. He started his missionary
career in Uruguay shortly after his graduation from Ohio Wesleyan
College. He is also described in 1913 as a chaplain in the United States
army in the Canal Zone and the director of the American College in Panama.

CONEY, DANIEL RITCHIE

Born: married:

Died:obit:

Interment:

Obit

1925-28Oriole & Antes Fort

1928-30Morris

Note: Daniel Coney served as a
local pastor.He is a 1924 graduate of
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.

Note: There is also an obituary in
the 12-8-1921 Christian Advocate, page 1555.A biographical sketch appears in the 7-11-1912 Christian Advocate, page
1014.Frank Ames Tyler (1875-1953) of
the Virginia Conference of the MEC South (and later the Baltimore Conference)
is a nephew.

CONNER, GEORGE FRANCIS

Born: 2-16-1892 WilmingtonDEmarried: Olive E. Keeler

Died: 9-14-1948obit:

1917admitted on
trial, Philadelphia Conference

Interment: ArlingtonNationalCemetery,
ArlingtonVA

Obit: Philadelphia
Conference 1949, 490

1911-14student,
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary

1913-14Eagles Mere & Laporte

1916“transfer”
to Philadelphia Conference

1916-18Coventryville, Philadelphia
Conference

1918-21SafeHarbor

1921-25West
Grove

1925-30Pottstown
First

1930-35Norwood

1935-39PhiladelphiaBerry Memorial

1939-42Bywood

1942-48Philadelphia
Berry-Long Memorial

1948Chester
Trinity

CONNER, WALTER ROSS

Born: 2-19-1888McVeytown PAmarried: Bertha
Jane Hancock

Died: 10-18-1955obit:

1917 admitted on trial

1922ordained deacon

1923ordained elder

Interment:

Obit: West
Wisconsin Conference 1956, 154

1916-17Emporium circuit (beginning during the 1915-16 year)

1917-20student, OhioWesleyanCollege
in DelawareOH

1920-23student, Garrett Theological Seminary in EvanstonIL

1924transfer to Wisconsin Conference

Note: Walter Ross Conner is listed
in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1952 Who’s
Who

CONRAD, FRED A.

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1917admitted
on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1917-18Riverside

1918-20no
appointment

1920transfer to Rock River Conference

CONSER, SOLOMON L. M.

Born: 6-6-1812Lewisburg PAmarried: Susan
Folck [9/7/1842]

Died: 2-20-1896Loganton PAobit:

1840admitted on
trial, Baltimore
Conference

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore
Conference 1896, 53

1840-41Licking Creek

1841-42Allegany [MD]

1842-43Bedford

1843-44Covington

1844-46Luzerne

1846-48Danville

1848-49JerseyShore

1849-50Allegany

1850-52Northumberland

1852-54Lewisburg (Pa) station

1854-56Carlisle
First

1856-57Carlisle
Emory Chapel

1857charter
member of East Baltimore Conference

1857-58Carlisle
Emory Chapel

1858-60Baltimore
Jefferson Street

1860-62Huntingdon

1862-63 chaplain
US
Army.

1863-64Petersburg

1864-66Gettysburg

1866-67Port Matilda

1867transfer
to Baltimore
Conference [to help reorganize in the South]

1867 Staunton

Fairfax

1877retired

Note: S.L.M. Conser is an uncle to Elder T. Conser of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
Evangelical Church.He requested the
1867 transfer to help reorganize the Methodist Episcopal Church in the South
following the War.He is the author of
the 1891 Virginia after the war: an
account of three year's experience in reorganizing
the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia
at the close of the Civil War
and other related material.One source
gives his birth as “Washingtontownship, Lycoming
[now Clinton] County.”

COOK, ALBERT JACOB

Born: 1-30-1849married:

Died: 10-29-1930obit:

1873admitted
on trial, Central New York Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1873-75missionary, China

1875transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1875-79missionary, China

1879-80Donegal circuit, Pittsburgh Conference

1880transfer to Pittsburgh Conference

1880-82Donegal circuit

1898-01Claysville circuit

1901-04Beallsville circuit

Note:The early career of Albert J. Cook is linked
with that of J. Resides Hykes of Shippensburg..Both were admitted
on trial in the Central NY Conference as missionaries to China
in 1873, both transferred to the Central PA in 1875 and continued to serve as
missionaries to China.

COOK, CHARLES OSCAR

Born: 11-17-1845 BaltimoreMDmarried: Josephine H. Graves

Died: 10-11-1899 ShepherdstownWVobit: [d. 12/16/1893]

1865admitted on
trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: ElmwoodCemetery, ShepherdstownWV

Obit: Baltimore
Conference 1900, 73

1865-66Hancock

1866-67Frostburg

1867-68Westminster

1868transfer
by boundary change to Baltimore
Conference

1868-69North
Baltimore

1869-71Berkley
Springs

1871-73Antietam

1873-75on
leave for health reasons

1875-76Bladensburg

1876-78Spencerville

1878-80Berkley
Springs

1880-81Flintstone

1881-84Shepherdstown

1884-86Forestville

1886-89Anacostia

1889-94Washington
North Capitol

1894-97Fletcher

1897-98Brookland & Langdon

1898-99Brookland

1899BaltimoreGarrett
Park

COOK, HARVEY A.

Born:married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1927-29Wallis
Run

Note: Harvey A. Cook served as a local pastor.He is otherwise unknown.He is also designated as E. HARVEY COOK.

COOK, ISRAEL
BRIGGS

Born: 6-19-1789 Vermontmarried:
Anna Beach Dodson

Died: 3-7-1868 LuzerneCountyPAobit:
[3/22/1797 – 5/20/1847]

1813admitted on
trial, Genesee Conference

1816ordained
deacon, Genesee Conference

1817ordained elder,
Genesee Conference

Interment: PineGroveCemetery,
Berwick PA

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1868, 55

1813Genesee
Conference

1813-14Lycoming

1814-15Canaan

1815-16Northumberland

1816-17Canaan

1817-18Bridgewater

1818-19Shamokin

1819-20Lycoming

1820transfer
by boundary change to Baltimore
Conference

1820-21Northumberland

1821-22Juniata

1822retired

1857charter
member of East Baltimore Conference

Note: Israel
B. Cook maintained his home in Huntingtontownship, LuzerneCounty, where his wife
was born and raised.Some sources give
that as his birthplace.He is also reported
to have been a member of the Wyoming
Conference

COOK, JOHN C.

Born: c. 1837married:

Died: 4-22-1862Carlisle PAobit:

1860admitted on
trial, East
Baltimore Conference

1862ordained
deacon, East
Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: East Baltimore Conference 1863, 31

1860-61Shirleysburg

1861-62Carlisle

1862McVeytown [appointed, but took ill before filling the
appointment]

COOK, MAX BURDETTE

Born: 1-18-1909Farrandsville
PAmarried:
Freda Miller

Died: 2-22-1983obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1987, 412

1951license, recommended by Jersey Shore First

1955ordained deacon

1957ordained elder

1969admitted as associate member

Interment: SunnysideCemetery, Mill Hall PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1983, 400

1951-53assistant, Lock Haven Parish

1953-54Waterville

1954-56Millville

1956-58Trevorton

1958-62Howard

1962-66Bendersville (beginning
3/15/1962)

1966-71Mill Hall

1971-75Milesburg

1975retired

1975-76 Waterville

1976-79Fairbrook

Note: Max B. Cook taught high
school and coached for 20 years prior to entering the ministry.

COOK, WILLIAM B. SR

Born:married:

Died: 1912obit:

1907license

Interment:

Obit:

1906-07Cherry Tree

1907-08Gatchelville

1908-10Waller

1910-12Washingtonville (moved to Jonestown in mid-year year: see
1912, 81)

1912Jonestown

Note: William B. Cook Sr served as a local pastor.He seems to have died soon after the 1912
conference.

COOK, WILLIAM B. JR

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1911admitted
on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1910-11Clearfield
circuit

1911-13Karthaus

1913-15Port
Matilda

1915-18Salona-Lamar

1918located

COOPER, GEORGE B.

Born: 2-20-1867Johnstown PAmarried: Letta L. Schobert [3/3/1891]

Died: obit:
[b. 3/3/1868]

Interment:

Obit:

1888-89Schloyersville (first 4 months), while the assigned pastor
finished school

Nescopeck
(last 8 months), assisting during the last year they were attached to Berwick

Note: George B. Cooper is listed as a local pastor 1888,125
– his only mention in the conference journals.The story of George B. Cooper is given in the 2013 volume of The Chronicle, pages 60-73.

COOPER, GEORGE WASHINGTON

Born: 7-11-1825 GettysburgPAmarried: Lavinia Beckwith

Died: 1-22-1902obit:
[c.1827 – after 1903]

1847admitted on
trial, Baltimore
Conference

1850ordained
deacon, Baltimore Conference

1852ordained elder,
Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore
Conference 1902, 58

1848-49Shippensburg

1849-50Carlisle

1850-51Frederick

1851-53Lewisburg (Va) station

1853-55Martinsburg

1855-56Lewistown

1856-57Hollidaysburg

1857charter member of East
Baltimore Conference

1857-58Hollidaysburg

1858-60Baltimore
Harford Avenue

1860-62Baltimore
Emory Chapel

1862-63Waynesboro
(first part of year)

Baltimore
Jefferson Street (second part of year)

1863-66BaltimoreJefferson Street

1866-68Frostburg station

1868transfer
by boundary change to Baltimore
Conference

1868-69Frostburg
station

1869-72BaltimoreColumbia
Avenue

1872-74WashingtonMcKendree

1874-78superintendent,
Winchester
District

1878-81Baltimore
Wesley Chapel

1881-84BaltimoreFranklin Street

1884-87BaltimoreColumbia
Avenue

1887-92Westminster

1892-97BaltimoreMountVernon

1897retired

1897 BaltimoreBethany (5 months)

COOPER, OKEY

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1953admitted on trial, West Virginia Conference

1956admitted in full connection, West Virginia Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1953-54Smithfield
(moved to Greenbank before the year was completed)

1954-55Greenbank

1955-58Oceana

1958-59Dallas

1959transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1959-63Claysburg

1963located

COPE, PAUL W.

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1963license

Interment:

Obit:

1963-64associate, Hunlock Creek

1964-68Ulysses

1968-71South Williamsport
(ending 1/1/71)

1971no longer listed

became a pastor in the United Church of Christ

Note: Paul W. Cope served as a
local pastor.

COPE, RALPH EDWARD

Born:married:
Sherryl _____

Died:obit:

1967license, recommended by Lime Ridge First

1970admitted on trial Baltimore Conference

1970ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1974ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1967-69 Audenreid-Jeanesville

1969-71student,
Lutheran Theological Seminar at Gettysburg

1969-70Big
Pool – Potomac, Susquehanna Conf. EUB (beginning 9/1969)

1970“transfer”
to Baltimore Conference by boundary change

1970-71Big
Pool – Potomac (ending 11/1971)

1971transfer
to Central Pennsylvania Conference (11/1971)

1971-78Martinsville
(beginning 11/1971)

1978-87Chestnut
Grove

1987-89State
Line

1989-93Altoona
East End

1993-99Sunbury
Otterbein

1999-02South
Williamsport larger parish

2002retired

2002-06Hendrickson-Mooresburg (ending 10/7/2006)

2007-10Evansville

Note: Ralph E. Cope served Audenreid-Jeanesville as a local as a local pastor.

COPELAND, HARRY F.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1909-10IrishValley

1910-11Wharton

Note:H.F. Copeland
served as a local pastor.He is
otherwise unknown.

CORSON, FRED PIERCE

Born: 4-11-1896 MillvilleNJmarried: Frances Blount Beaman

Died: 2-16-1985obit:
Wyoming Conference 1998, 319

1919ordained
deacon, New York East Conference

1920admitted on trial, New York East Conference

1922ordained elder, New York East Conference

Interment:

Obit: Southern New Jersey
Conference 1986, 282

1919-24JacksonHeights

1924-26New
Haven

1926-28Port
Washington

1928-30Brooklyn
Simpson

1930-34superintendent,
Brooklyn South District

1934-37 president, DickinsonCollege

1937transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1937-44president, DickinsonCollege

1944-elected Bishop

Note: Fred P. Corson is listed in the
1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the 1966 Who’s Who in
the MethodistChurch.He is the father of Hampton Payne Corson of
the New York Conference.

COSSLETT, CARL EVAN

Born:married:

Died:obit:

1957admitted
on trial

Interment:

Obit:

1956-58Mont
Alto

1958transfer to Virginia Conference

Note: Carl Evan Cosslett is listed
in the 2003 General Minutes as a retired member of the Virginia Conference.

COTTAM, JOSEPH A.

Born: 5-20-1883married:
Elizabeth Green [3/14/1903]

Died: 9-5-1967 PhiladelphiaPAobit: [1885-1963]

1904admitted on trial, Detroit Conference

1909ordained deacon

Interment: MountMoriahCemetery,
PhiladelphiaPA

Obit:

1909-10TroutLake and Nawbinway

1910-12Newberry

1912-14Dearborn Ten Eyck Memorial (ending Feb 1914)

1914transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1914-19Beaver
Meadows (left during the year for war work: see 1919, 72&73)

1919-20YMCAWar Work

1920-23on
leave

1923permitted to withdraw under complaints

missionary work in China,
Japan, India
and Africa

Note: Joseph A. Cottam was a
singular personality who became involved in serious incidents in both the Detroit
and Central Pennsylvania Conferences.He
just “appears” in the Detroit Conference appointments beginning in 1909, with
no mention of his entering the Conference in any category.The 1904 and 1909 dates are as reported in a
Central Pennsylvania Conference file. The folder on Rev. Cottam in the
biographical files at the archives includes a post-1923 brochure describing his
involvement with the traveling Swarthmore Chautauqua circuit.

Note: Harold L. Cowher is a
brother to Merle S. Cowher.He served as
a local pastor and settled on a career with the railroad.

COWHER, MERLE S.

Born: 7-4-1915Hannah Furnace PAmarried: Gladys Patton

Died: 3-23-1987obit:

1936license, Tyrone
Columbia Avenue

1945license, Allegheny Conference of the UnitedBrethrenChurch

1946admitted on trial, Allegheny Conference of the UnitedBrethrenChurch

1967ordained, Western Pennsylvania Conference of the EUBChurch

Interment: Shoop’s Cemetery, HarrisburgPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1987, 413

1937-38Allegheny circuit (1/1/37 – 6/30/38)

1938-40SandyRidge – Center

1940-41Wallaceton

1941-45US
Army

1945“transfer” to Allegheny Conference of the UnitedBrethrenChurch

1945-47Springfield
(11/1/45 – 9/1/47)

1947-64Sewickley (beginning 9/1/47)

1954-56Oak Ridge

1956-57no appointment

1957-63Fishertown

1963-70Huntingdon Larger Parish

1970transfer by boundary change to Central Pennsylvania
Conference of the UMC

1970-73Westfield

1973-81Harrisburg
Otterbein

1981retired

Note: Merle S. Cowher is a brother to Harold L. Cowher.He started the conference course of study and
has a file with the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, but he opted to join
the United Brethren denomination.

COX, ALBERT EDWARD

Born: 10-30-1935married:
Ruth Gray

Died: 2-26-2003obit:

1966ordained, Christian
& MissionaryAllianceChurch

1968license

1971ordained

1973admitted as associate member

Interment: BrookfieldCemetery, TiogaCountyPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 2003, 377

1962-68Christian & Missionary Alliance churches

1968transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference of the MethodistChurch

1968-69Harrison Valley Federated (ending 11/14/1969)

1969-71Genesee (beginning
11/15/1969)

1971-72Lock Haven circuit

1972-76Lock Haven Parish

1976-86North Towanda

1986-91New Bloomfield
Parish

1991-93Saginaw-Starview

1993-93\7Leesburg (ending 10/4/1997)

1997-99Watsontown (beginning 10/4/1997)

1999retired

1999-01 Wallis Run

COX, JOHN ALFRED

Born: 7-7-1896Orbisonia PAmarried: Eva Crispell

Died: 3-31-1966obit:

1924admitted
on trial

1926ordained deacon

Interment: SwissdaleCemetery,
Swissdale PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1966, 333

1922-23Cassville

1923-25Ennisville

1925-27Shirleysburg

1927-30Allenport

1930-32Petersburg

1932-37Berwick
Calvary

1937-38on
leave

1938withdrew

1960-66McElhattan

Note: John A. Cox was a member of
Trinity Lock Haven and worked for the Sylvania Company 1938-60.

CRAIG, JOHN F.

Born: 8-?-1826 MontourCountyPAmarried:

Died: 10-30-1886
DouglasCountyMOobit

1858admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: DouglasCounty, MO

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1887, 81

1858-59Newberry

1859-60Bellefonte
circuit

1860-61Caledonia

1861-62Shippensburg

1862-63Penn’s
Valley

1863-65New
Washington

1865-66Philipsburg

1866-67Sinnemahoning

1867-68Rainsburg

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69Snydertown

1869-71Trevorton

1871-72Port
Matilda

1872-73CoganValley

1873-74LibertyValley

1874-75Benton

1875-77Snow
Shoe

1877-78 Martinsburg

1878-79Pleasant
Gap

1879-81Congress
Hill

1881-86on
leave for health reasons

Note: John F. Craig supplied
churches in Missouri
1882-85.

CRAMER, LEO CARL

Born: 5-15-1929Soldier PAmarried: Mona Lou Buhite

Died:obit:

1947license

1955 admitted on trial

1955ordained deacon

1957ordained elder, Erie Conference

Interment:

Obit:

1955-57NewtonHamilton

1957transfer to Erie Conference (merged into Western
Pennsylvania in 1962)

1957-63SandyLake

1963-65missionary, ChugiakAK

1965-71missionary, Anchorage AK Anchor Park

1971-70Saegertown-BloomingValley

1979-94Reynoldsville

1994retired

Note: Leo Carl Cramer is a brother
to Max Wayne Cramer and to Roger W. Cramer of the Western Pennsylvania
Conference.He is listed in the 1966
Who’s Who in the MethodistChurch, page 286.

CRAMER, MAX WAYNE

Born: 7-13-1922Sykesvile PA
married:
Gladys Irene Sheesley

Died: 1-16-2012INobit:
Central PA Conference 2008, 402

1951admitted on trial, Erie Conference

1952ordained deacon

1954ordained elder

Interment: Valhalla Memory
Gardens, Bloomington IN

Obit: Susquehanna Conference 2012,
293

1952transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1952-54Claysburg

1954-56McVeytown

1956-58Snow
Shoe

1958-59 Reedsville

1959transfer to Erie Conference (merged into Western
Pennsylvania in 1962)

1959-65Harrisville (ending Feb 1965)

1965-66Dubois Lakeside –Sabula (beginning Feb 1965)

1966-70missionary, Girdwood & East Anchorage AK

1970transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1970-73Clearfield
Parish

1973-78missionary, AK (ending 10/25/1978)

1978-82Penbrook Trinity
(beginning10/25/1078)

1982-86Red Bird Missionary Conference

1986-88ManchesterKY First

1988retired

Note: Max Wayne Cramer is a
brother to Leo Carl Cramer and to Roger W. Cramer of the Western Pennsylvania
Conference.He is listed in the 1966
Who’s Who in the MethodistChurch, page 286.

Note: An obituary for Abram M.
Creighton also appears in the 7/15/1884 Conference News.A biographical sketch is given in Armstrong’s
The Old Baltimore Conference.Mrs.
Creighton was one of eight sisters, five of whom married Methodist ministers:
Anna married Presley Smith, Margaret married Dennis Dorsey of the Missouri
Conference, Frances
married Samuel Regester, Sarah
married Alexander M. Barnitz.

Note: This name also appears as J.
ELLSWORTH CREPS.His son and grandson,
Rev. John E. Creps Jr and Rev. John E. Creps III, also served as pastors in other
denominations.More information is
available from the biographical files in the conference archives.

Note: Benjamin Heck Crever is a brother to Frederick E. Crever.There is also an obituary in the 5-29-1890 Baltimore
Methodist.Biographical sketches appear
in Armstrong’s The Old Baltimore Conference and in Simpson’s Cyclopedia of
Methodism.Rev. Crever
led the construction of Crever Memorial ME Church in Petersburg
in memory of his wife.Rev. Crever’s daughter Mary is the wife of Charles T. Dunning
and mother of James Edwin Dunning.

Note: Frederick E. Crever is a brother to Benjamin Heck Crever.A biographical sketch appears in Armstrong’s
The Old Baltimore Conference.

CRITES, BART E.

Born: 2-20-1892Renovo PAmarried: Alma I. Dieffenderfer

Died: 11-22-1961FLobit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1982, 389

1924admitted
on trial

Interment: WildwoodCemetery, WilliamsportPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1962, 318

1924-28Avis

1928-35AltoonaLlyswen

1935-37Hollidaysburg
First

1937-42Hazleton St.
Paul’s

1942-49Waynesboro

1949-54Williamsport
Newberry

1954-57Northumberland

1957retired

CRIVELLI, UGO

Born: 8-14-1881 Milan,
Italymarried: Esther Rossi

Died: 8-15-1960 YoungstownOHobit: Erie Conference 1953, 660

Interment: YoungstownOH

Obit: Erie
Conference 1961, 596

Indiana
Conference

1920 transfer to Central Pennsylvania Conference

1920-33Altoona
Italian Mission

1933transfer to Wyoming Conference

Hillsville
PA

retired to JamestownNY

returned to AltoonaPA
and conducted Italian services at Altoona
Broad Avenue

CROFT, EDWARD JACOB

Born: 2-28-1873 FranklinCountyPAmarried: Anna Viora Wagner

Died: 7-15-1956obit:
Central Pennsylvania Conference 1957, 248

Interment: Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1957, 240

1913-22Harrisonville (beginning 5/10/13)

1922-26Concord

1926-31FortLoudon (ending 10/15/31)

1931-36York Springs (beginning 10/15/31)

1936-41Blain

1941retired

1946-47Burnt Cabins (beginning 10/15/46)

Note: Edward J. Croft served as a
local pastor and is the son of John R. Croft (1827-1898) of the Pennsylvania
Conference of the UnitedBrethrenChurch.The story of how he was recruited for
Methodism is given in the 1814 journal, page 80.He is also reported to have served briefly in
retirement at Hustontown, Harrisonville, Neelyton, East Waterford,
and Bendersville.

CROMWELL, GEORGE CUSTER

Born:
1-22-1901married:
Lula Leonard LeCompte

Died:
2-12-1998obit:
Baltimore Conference 1989, 382

1925admitted on trial, Baltimore Conference

1927ordained deacon, Baltimore Conference

1929ordained elder, Baltimore Conference

Interment: RockvilleCemetery, RockvilleMD

Obit: Baltimore-Washington
Conference 1998, 585

1924-25student, DickinsonCollege

1924-25Blain (beginning 8/4/24 and ending
fall 1925)

1925-28student, Drew Theological Seminary in Madison NJ

1928-31Stone Chapel

1931-35Woodlawn
St.Lukes

1935-39Exeter
Memorial

1939-45Havre de Grace

1945-47WashingtonDC Lewis Memorial

1947-51Towson
First

1951-57WashingtonDCBrookland

1957-66Rockville

1966retired

1966-72minister of visitation, Bethesda

Note: G. Custer Cromwell is the
father of missionary to Argentina Marian Cromwell (Mrs. Milton) Robinson.

CRONCE, ASHER READING

Born: 9-3-1851 RosemontNJmarried: Martha Gregg Morris

Died: 10-24-1906obit:
Newark Conference 1921, 79

1879admitted
on trial

Interment:

Obit: Newark
Conference 1907, 101

1878-81Howard

1881-83AltoonaTwenty-Fourth Street

1883-86York Duke Street

1886-89New
Cumberland

1889transfer to St. Louis Conference

1906Newark
Trinity

CRONE, LEVI SMITH

Born: 2-12-1836nearDoverPAmarried: Mrs. Elizabeth C. Krause

Died: 9-15-1896Marion KSobit:

1862license, recommended by York
Beaver Street

1863admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference

1865ordained deacon, East Baltimore Conference

1867ordained elder, East Baltimore Conference

Interment: Marion
KS

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1897, 92

1862-63MiddletownMD

1863-64Frostburg

1864-65Liberty

1865-66Allegheny

1866-67Quincy

1867-68York Duke Street

1868charter member of Central
Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70Jamestown

1870-73Sinnemahoning

1873-75Howard

1875-76Congress
Hill

1876-79Washingtonville

1879-82Castle
Fin

1982-84Three
Springs

1884-86Concord

1886on leave to Kansas
for health reasons

CROPF, ALLEN FOSTER

Born: 2-23-1933Danville PAmarried: Varabhon
_____

Died: 10-24-2013obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1961-65Audenreid

Note: Allen F. Cropf
served in the Central Pennsylvania Conference as a local pastor.He graduated from Perkins School of Theology
and served as a pastor and/or chaplain in Pennsylvania, Texas, Thailand and New
York.He was a longtime resident of
Ithaca NY.

CROSTHWAITE, ADAM CLARK

Born: 1-31-1844married:
Harriet Emma Fisher

Died: 3-3-1917obit:
Nebraska Conference 1929, 420

1868admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference

Interment:

Obit: Nebraska
Conference 1917, 266

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70Bloomingdale

1870-72Centralia

1872-74 Benton

1874-75LibertyValley

1875-78Duboistown

1878transfer to Nebraska Conference

Note: A. Clark Crosthwaite is the
son of Mortimer P. Crosthwaite.

CROSTHWAITE, MORTIMER P.

Born: 9-16-1819 CentreCountyPAmarried: Catherine E.
Close

Died: 1-6-1898Cammal PAobit: (d.
6/17/1851)

married2:
Rebecca T. Kennelly

1860admitted on trial, East Baltimore Conferenceobit2:
(d. 12/2/1889)

Interment: WildwoodCemetery, WilliamsportPA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1898, 96

1860-61Warrior’s
Mark

1861-62Orangeville

1862-64Catawissa

1864-66Berwick

1866-68Bloomingdale

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-69Bloomingdale

1869-72Salona

1872-74Espy-Light St.

1874-77Mifflinburg

1877-79Montousville

1879-82Hughesville

1882-84Beech
Creek-Mill Hall

1884-85East
Lock Haven

1885-88Saladasburg

1888-91Duboistown

1891-98on
leave

Note: Mortimer P. Crosthwaite is
the father of Adam Clark Crosthwaite and Jennie M. Crosthwaite, wife of Zebulon
Stratton Rhone.

CROTSLEY, GEORGE NELSON

Born: 3-17-1851near Cassville PAmarried:

Died: 1-31-1901near Eagle Foundry PAobit:

1887ordained deacon, recommended by Clarkstown

Interment: family cemetery, near
Cassville PA

Obit: [1901, 78]

1886-87Clarkstown and Fairview

1887-89Clarkstown

1889-91Loyalsock

1892-95Waterville

1895-98Gardeau

1898no longer listed

Note: George N. Crotsley served as a local pastor and is the brother of
H.H. Crotsley.In 1898 (following the death of his wife and for his own health) he
retired to Slate Run PA and practiced dentistry as he was able.An obituary also appears in the 4/18/1902 Christian Advocate, page 638.

Note: Walter L. Crowding is the
father ofCatherine
Crowding Cole, wife of Dan P. Cole.He
is listed in the 1945 Prominent Personalities in American Methodism and the
1966 Who’s Who in the MethodistChurch.

CROYLE, FRANK CARL

Born: 6-4-1940 New
Castle PAmarried:
Barbara Louise Stocker

Died: obit:

1965admitted
on trial

1965ordained deacon

1968ordained elder

Interment:

Obit:

1958-62student, ULCA in Los
AngelesCA

1959-62assistant, Los Angeles CA LaTisera

1962-64student. Drew Theological Seminary in Madison
NJ

1962-64assistant, DemarestNJ

1964-66assistant, Ridgefield CT Jesse Lee Memorial

1966-67study abroad

1967-70Summerdale-West Fairview

1970-76Summerdale (ending 9/1/1976)

1976-84Troy
(beginning 9/1/1976)

1984-86Penbrook Grace

1986-87sabbatical

1987-90leave of absence

1990withdrew: see 1990, 236

CROYLE, HARRY ALLEN

Born: 3-23-1892 PaviaPAmarried: Mabelle Z. Hilbish

Died: 10-29-1950obit:
[1890-1978]

1927ordained local
deacon

Interment: PaviaCemetery,
PaviaPA

Obit:

1923-25Glen
Hope

1925-28Karthaus

1028-29Penfield

Note: Mrs. Croyle
is the daughter of Benjamin F. Hilbish.

CROYLE, ROBERT RAYMOND

Born: 3-2-1903Ramey PAmarried: Helen Elizabeth
Riffle

Died: 6-18-1980obit:
2005, 444

1928admitted
on trial

1930ordained deacon

1932ordained elder

Interment: OldRosemontCemetery,
Bloomsburg PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1981, 328

1928-31student,
JuniataCollege

1928-31Shirleysburg

1931-33student Garrett Biblical Institute in EvanstonIL

1932-33 Harvey
IL

1933-38AltoonaJaggard

1938-41AltoonaJaggard-Mardorf

1941-43Curwensville

1943-45chaplain,
US Navy

1945-46Williamsport Mulberry Street

1946-49Milton

1949-56Clearfield
Trinity

1956-60superintendent,
Altoona District

1960-65Bloomsburg
Wesley

1965 retired

1965-74counseling minister, Bloomsburg Wesley

Note: Robert R. Croyle
is listed in the 1966 Who’s Who in the MethodistChurch, page 296.

1860admitted
on trial, East Baltimore Conference: recommended by Danville

1862ordained deacon

1864ordained elder

Interment: MuncyCemetery,
Muncy PA

Obit: Central Pennsylvania
Conference 1875, 67

1860-61Muncy

1861-62Shrewsbury

1862-63Harford Avenue

1863-64Great
Falls

1864-65Long
Green

1865-66Hancock

1866-68on
leave

1868charter member of Central Pennsylvania Conference

1868-70Jeanesville

1870-72Muncy

1872-74Salona

Note: A biographical sketch is
given in the 1/1/1882 Conference News, page 5.James Billingsley Cuddy is a first cousin to George Lawson Cuddy
(1854-1929) of the Pacific Northwest Conference and to the father of Royston S.
Cuddy.Refer to the Cuddy folder in the
biographical files.

CUDDY, ROYSTON STABLER

Born: 9-26-1892married:
[5/27/1913]

Died: 2-26-1968obit:

1914admitted
on trial

1917ordained deacon

Interment: Vestal Hills Memorial
Park, Vestal NY

Obit:

1911-13local preacher, living in New Freedom

1913-14Gatchelville

1914-17GreenVillage

1917-18Bakerton

1918-19York
Epworth

1919-20New
Bloomfield

1920-22Town
Hill

1922withdrew

Note:Royston S. Cuddy is a 1912 graduate of
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary.Photos of
him are available in glee cub and graduation group pictures.In 1934 Royston Cuddy was a congregational
pastor in NorwoodNY.In 1952 he was a Presbyterian minister in
Conklin NY.Royston S. Cuddy is the
nephew of George Lawson Cuddy (1854-1929) of the Pacific Northwest Conference
and the first cousin once removed of James Billingsley Cuddy.Refer to the Cuddy folder in the biographical
files.

CULLUM, JEREMIAH WESLEY

Born: 2-18-1808 East
Baltimore MDmarried: Margaret Blair

Died: 4-30-1886 BaltimoreMDobit:

married2:
Mrs. Esther Bickerton

1832admitted on
trial, Baltimore
Conferenceobit: [d. 6-?-1886]

Interment:

Obit: Baltimore
Conference 1887, 44

1832-33Christiansburg

1833-34Franklin

1834-35Huntersville

1835-36Craig’s Creek mission

1836-37Monroe

1837-38LostRiver mission

1838-39South Branch

1839-41Moorefield

1841-42Harford

1842-44Baltimore
Sharp Street & Asbury station

1844-45Baltimore
city mission

1845-47Shrewsbury

1847-48retired

1848-50Baltimore
Dallas Street

1850-52Castle Fin

1852-54Montgomery

1854-56Boonsboro

1856-59agent, Maryland State Colonization
Society

1859-60in leave

1860-61agent, Maryland State Colonization
Society

1861retired

1868transfer by boundary change to Baltimore Conference

1870-72 Liberty
(beginning in mid-1870)

1872-75Hampstead

Note: J. Wesley
Cullum is sometimes erroneously designated John Wesley Cullum.The second Mrs. Cullum was the daughter of
Rev. Thomas Freeman, “well-known as an active missionary in the city of Baltimore.”

CULVER, CHARLES E.

Born: married:

Died: obit:

Interment:

Obit:

1907-08Shirleysburg

Note: Charles E. Culver served as a local pastor.He is otherwise unknown.